It is one of the quirks of a train trip in Ukraine that even as one employee wanders through packed carriages selling beer from his 1980s supermarket basket, another patrols the same beat intent on ordering people to stop drinking it. It makes for a rather contrary experience, but in Ukraine this is a mode of transport that veers between two extremes. This rather confused beer policy is seemingly restricted to the old sleeper trains that snake their way up to Moscow overnight - not that much sleeping gets done - rather than the new sleek fleet ordered in as part of a modernisation programme in time for Euro 2012.
Euro 2012
Eurosport: Trains and pains in Ukraine
Tom Adams in Kharkiv reports on his experiences using the country's new, and old, transport infrastructure.
